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Pyrrhotite

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Pyrrhotite

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Description
Locality: 
Gas Pipe, Obergesteln, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 2.9 × 1.4 cm
Description

Aggregate of stacked hexagonal brassy pyrrhotite crystals with dolomite crystals on matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrrhotite

Formula: 
Fe1-xS (x = 0 to 0.17)
Strunz: 
2.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0